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Pictures at a Revolution

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by Mark Harris


  and In Cold Blood premiere

  as college campus hero

  crosses paths with Beatty

  and death of Dr. King

  directs plays on Broadway

  filming The Graduate

  and first screenings of The Graduate

  and The Graduate cast rehearsals

  introduction to The Graduate

  at Jane Fonda’s 1985 Fourth of July party

  and music for The Graduate

  as Oscar contender

  postpones The Graduate

  prelude to The Graduate

  and The Public Eye

  sees Dustin Hoffman in play Harry Noon and Night

  Tony Awards

  and Warner Brothers

  and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  wins New York Film Critics Circle Best Director award for The Graduate

  Nicholson, Jack

  Nicholson, James

  Nizer, Louis

  Nobody Loves Me (play). See also Barefoot in the Park (play).

  North, Alex

  Nouvelle Vague

  Oates, Warren

  Obie Awards

  O’Brien, Robert

  Odets, Clifford

  Old Hollywood vs. New Hollywood

  Old Sentimentality vs. New Sentimentality

  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (play)

  On the Beach

  On the Waterfront

  Oscars. See Academy Awards

  O’Steen, Sam

  Othello

  O’Toole, Peter

  Paramount

  Parker, Bonnie

  Parker, Emma

  Parsons, Estelle

  A Patch of Blue

  Paulson, Albert

  The Pawnbroker

  Peck, Gregory

  Peckinpah, Sam

  Penn, Arthur

  and Abe Lastfogel

  after Bonnie and Clyde

  agrees to Beatty’s plea to direct Bonnie and Clyde

  background

  at Berkshire Theatre Festival

  and black and white films

  and Bonnie and Clyde postproduction

  and The Chase

  and dailies for Bonnie and Clyde

  and death of Dr. King

  directs An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May on Broadway

  directs Wait Until Dark on Broadway

  early screenings of Bonnie and Clyde

  filming of Bonnie and Clyde

  fired from The Train

  and Golden Boy

  and The Left-handed Gun

  and Little Big Man

  and Mickey One

  at Montreal premiere of Bonnie and Clyde

  nonparticipant at 1967 Academy Awards

  preproduction work on Bonnie and Clyde

  question of Clyde Barrow’s sexuality

  rejects offers to direct Bonnie and Clyde

  relationship with Beatty regarding Bonnie and Clyde

  response to audience reception for Bonnie and Clyde

  and rewrites for Bonnie and Clyde

  view of 1960s Hollywood system

  Penn, Irving

  Picker, David. See also United Artists

  A Place in the Sun

  Planet of the Apes

  Pleasence, Donald

  Plummer, Christopher

  Point Blank

  Poitier, Sidney

  and 1963 Academy Awards

  as Academy Award presenter

  after Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  aftermath of 1963 Academy Award

  background

  and The Bedford Incident

  and The Blackboard Jungle

  as box-office star

  critical reaction to his movie roles

  and death of Dr. King

  declines to play Othello

  and The Defiant Ones

  and Doctor Dolittle

  gives New York Film Critics Circle Best Director award to Mike Nichols

  and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  and In the Heat of the Night

  at Jane Fonda’s 1965 Fourth of July party

  Katharine Hepburn’s attitude toward

  and Lilies of the Field

  and The Long Ships

  and The Lost Man

  and For Love of Ivy

  not nominated for 1965 Academy Awards

  and A Patch of Blue

  press tour for In the Heat of the Night

  and Pressure Point

  role in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  and To Sir, with Love

  and The Slender Thread

  Polanski, Roman

  Pollack, Sydney

  Pollard, Michael J.

  Pozzo diBorgo, Micheline Musselli

  Preminger, Otto

  Prescott, Orville

  Previn, André

  Production Code

  and Alfie

  and The Americanization of Emily

  background

  and Blow-Up

  and Bonnie and Clyde

  and Calder Willingham

  critical opposition to

  and European films

  and The Graduate

  and In the Heat of the Night

  and The Honey Pot

  and Jack Valenti

  newer, more relaxed

  overhaul announced

  and The Pawnbroker

  and Two for the Road

  and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  Promise Her Anything

  PT 109

  The Public Eye (play)

  Ransohoff, Martin

  Rauschenberg, Robert

  Rayfiel, David

  Reagan, Ronald

  Rebner, Meta

  Redford, Robert

  Reed, Rex

  Reflections in a Golden Eye

  Reiss, Stuart

  Reisz, Karel

  Renoir, Jean

  Resnais, Alain

  Ribman, Ronald

  Richards, Beah

  Richardson, Tony

  Ritt, Martin

  The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd

  Robards, Jason Jr.

  Roberts, Rachel

  Rolf, Frederick

  Rollin, Betty

  The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

  Rose, William

  after Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  background

  and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  wins Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  Ross, Herbert

  Ross, Katharine

  Rossen, Robert

  Roud, Richard

  Route 66 (TV show)

  The Royal Hunt of the Sun (play)

  Rusk, Dean

  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

  Rutherford, Margaret

  The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  Saint-Subber, Arnold

  Saltzman, Harry

  The Sand Pebbles

  Sanford, Isabel

  Sarris, Andrew

  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

  Schallert, William

  Schickel, Richard

  Schiller, Joel

  Schisgal, Murray

  Schlesinger, John

  Schlom, Marshall

  Schmidt, Harvey

  Schumach, Murray

  Schwartzman, Jack

  Scott, George C.

  Scott, Helen

  Seberg, Jean

  Segal, George

  Selassie, Haile

  Sellers, Peter

  Selznick, David

  Send Me No Flowers

  Sentimentality, Old vs. New

  Seven Arts

  7 Women

  Shaffer, Peter

  Shampoo

  Sharpe, Karen. See Kramer, Karen

  Shaw, Artie

  Sheen, Martin

  Ship of Fools

  Shurlock, Geoffrey. See also Production Code

  Silbe
rt, Bernard

  Silliphant, Stirling

  after In the Heat of the Night

  background

  and In the Heat of the Night

  and The Slender Thread

  wins Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for In the Heat of the Night

  work with Norman Jewison on script for In the Heat of the Night

  writes screen adaptation of In the Heat of the Night

  Silverstein, Elliot

  Simon, John

  Simon, Neil

  Simon, Paul

  Simon and Garfunkel

  Skolsky, Sidney

  Skouras, Spyros

  The Slender Thread

  Smith, Guy

  Smith, Maggie

  SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

  Solo, Robert

  Sondheim, Stephen

  The Sound of Music

  Spartacus

  Spiegel, Sam

  Splendor in the Grass

  Springer, John

  Stalmaster, Lynn

  Stamp, Terence

  Star!

  Starr, Harrison

  Steiger, Rod

  as 1967 Academy Award nominee

  after In the Heat of the Night

  and death of Dr. King

  film critic awards

  and In the Heat of the Night

  and The Pawnbroker

  Stevens, George

  Stewart, Alexandra

  Stewart, Jimmy

  Stradling, Harry

  A Streetcar Named Desire

  Streisand, Barbra

  Strickling, Howard

  studios, Hollywood. See also Columbia Pictures; MGM; Paramount; United Artists; Universal Studios; Warner Brothers

  corporate takeovers

  faith in movie musicals

  product quality issues

  relationship with television networks

  response to success of The Graduate

  Surtees, Robert

  Susann, Jacqueline

  Swann, Donald

  Swink, Robert

  Sylbert, Anthea

  Sylbert, Dick

  Tale of the Fox. See The Honey Pot” Talk to the Animals” (song)

  The Taming of the Shrew

  Tammy movies

  A Taste of Honey

  Tate, Sharon

  Tavoularis, Dean

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  and Cleopatra

  plays hostess to Rex Harrison and his wife

  and Reflections in a Golden Eye

  screen presence

  sought after

  and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  Teague, Anthony “Scooter,”

  This Property Is Condemned

  The Thomas Crown Affair

  Thompson, J. Lee

  Thoroughly Modern Millie

  Thunderball

  To Sir, with Love

  Tolan, Michael

  Toland, John

  Tom Jones

  Torn, Rip

  Towne, Robert

  Tracy, Louise

  Tracy, Spencer

  bows out of The Cincinnati Kid

  dies

  and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  as posthumous 1967 Academy Award nominee

  relationship with Katharine Hepburn

  and Ship of Fools

  and Stanley Kramer

  The Train

  Truffaut, François

  black and white films

  and Bonnie and Clyde

  and Fahrenheit

  as filmmaker

  interest in Bonnie and Clyde rekindled

  Jules and Jim

  and Leslie Caron

  Levine’s view

  and New Sentimentality

  recommends Bonnie and Clyde to Beatty

  turns down Bonnie and Clyde

  view of Warren Beatty

  visits set of Mickey One

  Trundy, Natalie

  Turman, Lawrence

  and book The Graduate

  and casting of The Graduate

  and The Flim-Flam Man

  The Graduate financial crisis

  pressured to wrap up The Graduate

  search for studio and screenwriter for The Graduate

  view of Embassy Pictures and Joe Levine

  20th Century-Fox. See also Zanuck, Darryl F.; Zanuck, Richard

  and 1963 Academy Awards

  1967 Oscar contenders

  and Cleopatra

  and Doctor Dolittle

  Fantastic Voyage

  lawsuit over rights to Dolittle books

  and The Longest Day

  need for more Bond-like movies

  as “old guard” studio

  and The Sound of Music

  and What a Way to Go!

  Two for the Road

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  United Artists and Arthur Penn

  and Bonnie and Clyde

  and Columbia

  and In the Heat of the Night

  and Help!

  and The Honey Pot

  and James Bond series

  and Lilies of the Field

  and Mirisch Company

  new-found interest in musicals

  and Norman Jewison

  response to success of The Graduate

  says no to Bonnie and Clyde

  and Sergio Leone movies

  and To Sir, with Love

  and Stanley Kramer

  studio ownership question

  and Truffaut

  and West Side Story

  and What’s New, Pussycat?

  and You Only Live Twice

  Universal Studios

  in 1960s

  1967 Oscar contenders

  and Airport

  and Fahrenheit

  new-found interest in musicals

  and Norman Jewison

  and Ross Hunter

  and Thoroughly Modern Millie

  Ustinov, Peter

  Vadim, Roger

  Valenti, Jack

  Valley of the Dolls

  Van Dyke, Dick

  Van Runkle, Theadora

  A View from the Bridge (play)

  Visconti, Luchino

  Voight, Jon

  Volpone. See The Honey Pot

  Wagner, Robert F.

  Wait Until Dark (movie)

  Wald, Jerry

  Walker, Robert Jr.

  Warhol, Andy

  Warner, Jack

  after Bonnie and Clyde

  and question of color vs. black and white

  reaction to Bonnie and Clyde

  and Warren Beatty

  Warner Brothers

  1967 Oscar contenders

  and Arthur Penn

  and Bonnie and Clyde

  and Camelot

  and Kaleidoscope

  and My Fair Lady

  need for more Bond-like movies

  new-found interest in musicals

  as “old guard” studio

  response to success of The Graduate

  studio ownership question

  and Warren Beatty

  and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  Watkin, Larry

  Wayne, John

  Webb, Charles

  Weld, Tuesday

  Welles, Orson

  Werner, Oskar

  West Side Story

  Wexler, Haskell

  What a Way to Go!

  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

  What’s New, Pussycat?

  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  as box-office success

  casting

  considered one of best movies of 1966

  filming

  preproduction

  and Production Code

  Wilbourn, Phyllis

  The Wild Angels

  Wilde, Cornel

  Wilder, Billy

  Wilder, Gene

  William Morris Agency. See Lastfogel, Abe

  Williams, Tennessee

  Will
ingham, Calder

  Wilson, Elizabeth

  Wilson, Scott

  Winsten, Archer

  Winston, Helen

  Winters, Shelley

  Wise, Robert

  Wood, Natalie

  Wright, Norton

  background

  famous meeting with Godard about Bonnie and Clyde

  option on Bonnie and Clyde

  Writers Guild

  Wyler, William

  Wynn, Keenan

  York, Susannah

  You Only Live Once (1937 film noir)

  You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie)

  Youngblood Hawke

  You’re a Big Boy Now

  Zanuck, Darryl F.

  and Cleopatra

  and Doctor Dolittle

  as Fox head

  gives major responsibility to his son

  and The Longest Day

  as “old Hollywood,”

  Zanuck, Richard

  and 1967 Fox lineup

  after Doctor Dolittle

  and Arthur Jacobs

  assumes major responsibility from his father

  and Doctor Dolittle

  and Doctor Dolittle’s Oscar nomination for Best Picture

  forced out of 20th Century Fox

  and Leslie Bricusse

  previewing Doctor Dolittle

  and The Sound of Music

  view of Bonnie and Clyde

  Zarky, Norma

  Zinberg, Leonard

  Zinnemann, Fred

  *Woodfall was a British production company founded by Tony Richardson and John Osborne; between 1958 and 1963, it produced Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, and Tom Jones.

  *Ford replaced her with Anne Bancroft.

  * Hal Ashby had a similar experience during production of In the Heat of the Night, when he went to see another Fox epic, John Huston’s The Bible. “Great God in Heaven,” he wrote to Norman Jewison, “I hope we never kid ourselves into trying something like that.”

  * Ingmar Bergman was an admirer of Penn’s work on Bonnie and Clyde, but he disapproved of Penn’s decision to shoot in color. “There’s a sensual erotic charm in color, when properly used,” he said. “…But I think color spoils a film like Bonnie and Clyde. That was a film, if any, which ought to have been shot…in coarse-grained black-and-white tones.” At the time of his remark, Bergman had not yet shot a color movie. (Bergman, quoted in Bergman on Bergman, by Stig Björkman, Torstenn Manns, and Jonas Sima, translated by Paul Britten Austin [New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1973], p. 227.)

  * In 2007 terms, the film’s total cost would have been in the neighborhood of $190 million.

  Coppola’s assistant on the movie was twenty-three-year-old film school student George Lucas, whose first film, then called THX 1133-4EB, Coppola had promised to produce if Finian’s Rainbow turned out to be a hit. “If suddenly they don’t want me,” Coppola told reporter Joseph Gelmis just before Rainbow opened, “then George has got a problem.”

  * In the movie’s one famous gaffe, Benjamin is shot driving in the wrong direction on the bridge.

 

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